Summary

Sara joined Brunel in May 2017 as a Lecturer in Media and Communications. Sara is the convenor of Media Genres (L2) and The Creative Industries (L5) and contributes to teaching on Gender and Sexuality (L3). Sara has taught on media studies, cultural studies and sociology courses at various universities at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, such as City University London, King’s College London and the London School of Economics.

Sara’s research interests are in gender and sexuality, class, postfeminism, austerity and popular culture. Prior to joining Brunel, she worked on a number of research projects about birth, motherhood and popular culture. Her ESRC funded PhD in Cultural Studies (2016) at King’s College London explored representations of, and reactions to, birth under austerity Britain. Sara was also a Research Assistant at the London School of Economics for Dr Shani Orgad in the Department of Media and Communications working on a project about representations of stay-at-home mothers and she was a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham on the Wellcome Trust funded project, Televising Childbirth. Before entering academia, Sara worked as a research associate for charities in the women’s sector.

De Benedictis, S. (2016)
'Watching One Born Every Minute: Negotiating the terms of the 'good birth'', in
Moseley, R., Wheatley, H. and Wood, H.
(eds.) Television for Women: New Directions. Open Access Link